Signs heralding a new restaurant or other business go up around Bend all the time, but few bring such attention or questions as one spotted this week near Highway 97 and Butler Market Road: “HERE SOON: IN-N-OUT BURGER.’” But to that California-based burger chain’s legion of hopeful fans: Sorry, folks. Not here, at least, not
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s secretary of state says an attempt to repeal a new law that grants undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses is unconstitutional and can’t proceed. Secretary of State Bev Clarno announced Tuesday the wording of Initiative Petition 43 does not include the “full text of the proposed law,” as required by the Oregon
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order giving state and local governments the authority to refuse to accept refugees. Brown said in a video posted Monday on Twitter that refugees are welcome in Oregon, and noted that it is a sanctuary state. The Democratic governor said
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and colleagues Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Monday introduced the Scrutinizing White House Activities that Make Profits (SWAMP) Act of 2019, legislation to prohibit any multilateral summits or meetings with foreign heads of state from being held at Trump Organization-owned properties. The SWAMP Act follows President Trump’s
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Four Democratic candidates running for Oregon secretary of state faced off in a debate Sunday at the culmination of the party’s weekend Oregon Summit in Sunriver. The biennial event brings together Democrats from around the state and Pacific Northwest for three days packed with workshops meant to promote civic engagement and political understanding, with a
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(Update: Details of convictions; courtroom scene) After nearly a month of often emotional testimony, it took a Deschutes County jury less than a day to find a Redmond couple guilty of murder by abuse and other charges Friday in the 2016 starvation death of their 5-year-old daughter, Maliyha Hope Garcia. Estevan Garcia, 35, and Sacora
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A 34-year-old man was arrested Friday morning in a raid on his northwest Bend apartment, accused of luring a 16-year-old girl on social media online in an attempt to engage in sexual contact, police said. Bend police began an investigation Oct. 7 into reports a man was inappropriately reaching out to and communicating with the
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(Update: Adds committee recommendation, details) SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Seeking to halt federal agents from arresting people in courthouses for immigration violations, a panel of judges in Oregon has asked the state’s Supreme Court chief justice to impose a rule stating that no one should be subjected to arrest without a warrant. Several judges on
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The Oregon Department of State Lands will host a public meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 29 in Bend on the status and plans to sell a tract of over 640 acres of state-owned property on Bend’s southeast outskirts. The meeting will be informational but coincides with a 30-day public comment period from Oct. 17 to Nov.
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Community members are invited to suggest potential names for Bend-La Pine Schools’ new high school, slated to open in fall of 2021 to students. Individuals can suggest names through an online survey, open now. The survey will close Nov. 15. The naming committee, which includes planning Principal Chris Boyd, staff members, community members and parents,
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There’s a new policy in place at Fred Meyer that could affect the way you shop. Parent company Kroger started rolling out a new cash back fee in select stores back East this summer. It reached areas of Oregon, including the Bend and Redmond locations, this week. Here’s how it breaks down: If you take
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Harvesting season is underway at hemp farms in Central Oregon, as the plant has quickly become one of the popular crops around the state. Last year’s federal Farm Bill removed hemp from the government’s controlled drug category. Since then, farmers across the country and the High Desert have begun growing it themselves. That’s mostly because
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(Update: City says three, not four, spaces removed) New parking changes have come to downtown Bend, including the removal of three previous parking spaces, much to the surprise of some regular users. The four spaces are located on Northwest Minnesota Avenue between Wall and Bond streets, on three of the four corners of Gasoline Alley.
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Addressing a controversial topic during a busy agenda, Bend city councilors voted 5-2 Wednesday night to let Les Schwab Tires move its Franklin Avenue store to a smaller lot along Third Street, with a majority viewing it as a net positive and opening up a downtown gateway to new, more pedestrian-friendly uses. After fairly divided
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Central Oregon drug agents, assisted by the region’s SWAT team, raided five sophisticated, illegal marijuana grow operations in the off-the-grid Juniper Acres area east of Alfalfa last week, seizing more than 1,000 plants, nine guns and a butane honey oil lab while making three arrests, officials said Wednesday. The Deschutes County Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team
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(Update: More testimony from afternoon session) The Redmond woman accused along with her husband of intentionally starving their 5-year-old daughter to death took the stand in her defense Tuesday, acknowledging that withholding food “was not the best decision” and describing a battle of wills over the girl’s refusal to speak and sneaking out of her
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As of Tuesday, a six-month ban on the sale of flavored vaping products went into effect across Oregon, and the impact was immediately felt on the High Desert. High Mountain Mist in Bend said the anticipated impact on sales has already caused them to make adjustments. “We’ve cut staffing down to bare bones,” Steve Johnson
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — As he stood amid the thick old-growth forests in the coastal range of Oregon, Dave Wiens was nervous. Before he trained to shoot his first barred owl, he had never fired a gun. He eyed the big female owl, her feathers streaked brown and white, perched on a branch at just
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Climate change was at the forefront Monday night at the Tower Theatre in Bend, as a former NASA scientist gave a presentation on the topic. A big crowd came out for the event, put on by OSU-Cascades, to hear Michael Freilich speak about climate change and its impacts, and how NASA tracks the changes from
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(Update: Second petition submitted, also lacks enough signatures; Oregon GOP statement) SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A pair of recall efforts by Republicans to oust Oregon’s Democratic governor failed on Monday, with officials saying one lacked the necessary number of signatures and the other failing to submit any signatures to election officials. “Since the deadline for
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